Economic Update: Rise and Fall of the USSR

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Check out our latest book with Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism https://www.democracyatwork.info/books We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Please consider supporting our work. Become an EU patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate [S9 E24] Rise and Fall of the USSR This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff goes beyond the simplistic, sterile Cold War debates of demonizers vs celebrants of the USSR as he delivers an in depth analysis of the USSR's strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures from its revolutionary beginnings in 1917 to its implosion in 1989. The first episode of a special 2-part series where Professor Wolff gives the same in-depth analysis for the People's Republic of China in the second part. Read transcript on our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_rise_and_fall_of_the_ussr Spanish captions by Emiliano Ricignolo Want to learn more about this subject? At the beginning of the episode, Prof. Wolff references a book that he co-authored which provides a much more detailed background and analysis for everything he mentions in this show. "Class theory and History. Capitalism and communism in the U.S.S.R." by Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff Publisher: London: Routledge, 2002 ISBN-13: 978-0415933186 ISBN-10: 0415933188 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" released in September 2020. Available as a paperback now! www.democracyatwork.info/books "Richard Wolff in his new book examines frightening and anti-democratic configurations of corporate power, offering not only a blueprint for how we got here, but a plan for how we will rescue ourselves and create new models of economic and political justice.” - Chris Hedges Check out Prof. Wolff's other books "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/democracyatwork _________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow us ONLINE: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate Websites: http://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate http://www.rdwolff.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EconomicUpdate http://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff http://www.facebook.com/DemocracyatWrk Twitter: http://twitter.com/profwolff http://twitter.com/democracyatwrk Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracyatwrk Subscribe to our podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop our Store: http://bit.ly/2JkxIfy Prof. Wolff's books with d@w: "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/democracyatwork Want to help us translate and transcribe our videos? Learn about joining our translation team: http://bit.ly/2J2uIHH Jump right in: http://bit.ly/2J3bEZR